Short-term memory effects on the representation of two-dimensional space in the rhesus monkey

Animal Cognition

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 133-143

  Merchant, Hugo ^a,b   Fortes, Antonio F ^b   Georgopoulos, Apostolos P ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Rhesus monkey; Short term memory; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MACACA; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL PROCESSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 4644367303     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-003-0201-z     Document Type: Article

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